# Santosh Vallabhaneni

> Santosh Vallabhaneni is the co-founder and CEO of Rovi Health, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building text-first, AI-enabled healthcare for employees. Patients get care over text or video while AI agents steer them to high-value, in-network providers and handle scheduling, cutting employer health spend by 10-20%. Before Rovi he was GM of Cedar's patient affordability products and an early go-to-market leader at AngelList, and he is a licensed health insurance broker. He founded the company with his brother Tarun, the CTO.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Rovi Health
- **Organizations:** Rovi Health, Cedar, AngelList, University of Pennsylvania
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded Rovi Health and was accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch, Scaled Cedar's patient affordability products to millions in ARR through enterprise hospital-system deals, Led a 30-person GTM and customer success team as an early employee at AngelList

## Career timeline

- **early** — Early employee at AngelList, leading a 30-person go-to-market and customer success team
- **later** — General Manager of Cedar's patient affordability products, scaling to millions in ARR with major hospital systems
- **ongoing** — Licensed health insurance broker
- **2025** — Co-founded Rovi Health with brother Tarun; admitted to Y Combinator Fall 2025 (F25) batch

## Achievements

- Co-founded Rovi Health and was accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch
- Scaled Cedar's patient affordability products to millions in ARR through enterprise hospital-system deals
- Led a 30-person GTM and customer success team as an early employee at AngelList
- Signed contracts covering thousands of employees across multiple employers for the 2025-2026 plan year before public launch
- Licensed health insurance broker

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Rovi Health raised a seed round; total funding reported around $130K (seed).
- **2025-10** — Rovi Health publicly launched via Y Combinator as text-based healthcare that slashes employer health spend.
- **2025-12** — Participated in Y Combinator F25 Demo Day.

## Links

- Website: https://rovi.health
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshvallabhaneni

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Last updated: 2026-06-21